Persian Literature Volume 2
Subtitle: Part 2
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: October 13, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780700713622
Subjects: Interdisciplinary Studies; Social Science; Ethnic Issues; Sociology; Ethnic Studies - General; Social Science / Ethnic Studies
First sentence: 345. Hippocrates, the "Father of Medicine", called in the Islamic languages Ibuqrat (also Ibbuqrat?) or, more frequently, Buqrat, is said to have been born in the island of Kos ("Cos"), off the coast of Asia Minor, at a date corresponding to 460 B.C. and to have died at Larissa, in Thessaly, at an advanced age variously given (85 and so on to 110) (see Ency. Brit., Chambers's Encyclopedia, and the works cited in those publications).